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Posted by wobur (My Page) on Fri, Mar 9, 07 at 6:08
| I bought an old wooden picture frame at a garage sale. The wood cleaned up easily and the dings I can fix, but I am stumped on how to clean a 1 1/2", off white, linen or canvas border around the inside of the frame. It is fairly dirty. Any ideas would be much appreciated. Thanks! |
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RE: cleaning linen material on old pic frame
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| Hi Wobur, you might go to the Christmas and Holiday forum as the gals over there are now talking about home decorating. I just asked a question the other day about how do I know if my fabric napkins are real linen and got good response, so they might know the answer to your question. As for me giving you an answer, please know I am no expert on this stuff whatsoever, but would "steam" work at cleaning the part that's dirty? Just a thought. Sal |
RE: cleaning linen material on old pic frame
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| Try a knead eraser. You can find them in the art department of most craft stores. My other suggestion would be one of those new Mr. Clean erasers. |
RE: cleaning linen material on old pic frame
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And if the earlier ideas the others have given you don't work, you could maybe paint it with a thin coat of off white paint.. just be careful and don't get it on the frame.
Marisha |
RE: cleaning linen material on old pic frame
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| Hi, I had the same problem with an old frame I found. Sorry to report, I had no luck. Nothing I did could clean it. In fact, I think it just ground the dirt into the fibers. I am going to go to my local craft/fabric store to get some of their by-the-yard ribbon. I know they have one their that is natural with a faint linen-like weave to it. I am going to glue mine right over the top of the old stuff. I know my mom has used deep blue velvet ribbon on frames too. |
RE: cleaning linen material on old pic frame
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| What great ideas! I can try to clean it and if it doesn't work I will look for some ribbon I'll let everyone know if anything works. Thanks for the help everybody! Wobur |
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